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 Power Politics - Arundhati Roy
Newest Review: ... serves as a sort of appetizer for the discussion of the Narmada Project by presenting the horrendous details of the ... more  ... ‘Enron deal’—the first privately-built power plant in India [for a different point of view, see Shashi Tharoor’s book, INDIA: FROM MIDNIGHT TO THE MILLENNIUM], in the state of Maharashtra. Enron is a Houston-based natural gas company contracted to build the first private power plant in India. ‘The Power Purchase Agreement between Enron and the Congress Party-ruled State Government of Maharashtra for a six hundred and ninety-five megawatt power plant was signed in 1993’ (pg. 53). The Hindu-n...more |
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Power Politics - Arundhati Roy: Tea and Scandal Indian-Style, or, The Tao of Rubbish-Burning ... (2060 words)
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POWER POLITICS is a short work (125 pages, including glossary and end-notes) by the Indian author Arundhati Roy, whose first novel, THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS, won the Booker Prize [the UK's most coveted literary award]. POWER POLITICS is focussed on the travesties being committed in India by foreign (mainly US) companies, in the name of ‘globalisation’. The two main matters discussed are the privatisation of India’s power supply to US-based energy companies and the construction of massive dams which will dislocate hundreds of thousands of people. The primary arguments are well-articulated, logical and easy to understand, even for the econo-political ... Read the complete review
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